2nd place AND Pumpkins!

So mom took me to PETCO on Sunday for a Halloween Party and entered me in the costume contest (with my Sushi suit on!). I came in SECOND PLACE!!!! Mom had her hands full, and it was really hard to get pics because I was acting like a hot buttered mess....

Here I am with Aunt Sarah and my buddy Count "Hank"ula! (hahahaa)

The winner was a REEEEALLY cute Boxer puppy dressed as a police officer! NO...sorry...no pics.

Hank and I did some shopping to celebrate my 2nd place win...

"SIT DOWN, HANK!....For crap's sake...get this buggy rollin' to the TREAT BAR, mom!"


In other news, Mom and Holden carved their pumpkins last night. Here is the finished collection....

Check out Holden's "puking" pumpkin barfing onto the poor dude below that was STABBED in the HEAD! Yikes!


I helped mom by modeling for her pumpkin (pugkin?)...

"Um, Mom...you might want to think about calling to schedule an eye dr. appointment....or perhaps some remedial art classes!"


Mom tells me that she and dad are taking me somewhere REALLY COOL tomorrow! This better be good to make up for this sushi suit jackassery!

My Halloween costume (drum roll please!!!....)

Yep....here we are with the annual Halloween HUMILIATION!!!!

That writing on the front of my shirt is Japanese for....



SUSHI!!!!!!!

Can you BEEELIEVE Mom did this to me? Oy.



Here I am giving her the "Super Evil S#IT Eye Glare" as she was sewing this monstrosity together.

I kept willing her to POKE herself with that needle...



Even my own MIMI sold me out and HELPED with this jackassery!!!!!

"Thanks a HEAP, Mimi!!!! Why did you have to encourage her?"



I'm just going to hide here until Halloween is over

"Can you PLEASE take this ridonkulous getup OFF me now????"



What are all of YOU going to be for Halloween????

More Mimi Fun

We've been keeping Mimi VERY busy and out of trouble!

Holden had his LAST football game yesterday and Mimi got to see him play! GO ARABIANS!!!! (I stayed home and watched The Flintstones because of the stupid "NO DOGS" rule at the stadium).


Holden's team won 22-0 and the peeps were FROZEN and soaked from the rain!!!

Here's Mimi getting a nice sweaty hug from Holden after the big win! Way to go, Holden!


This morning, it was STILL raining, so Mimi wore mom's wellies to keep her feet dry.

I wore my raincoat just because it looked so fabulous....but no one made me go out for a walk in this mess, thankfully!!!!


Then tonight, Holden got all dressed up like a fancy waiter and then the peeps left for like 923928374832849 hours...

Holden plays in the PHMS Honors Band and they had their first concert of the year tonight! They sounded FABULOUS!


After the concert, we had a little birthday party here to celebrate Mimi's friend ANN's birthday! Ann lives in Arizona and has the CUTEST little Maltese baby girl named Ellie (just like our Pug friend Ellie!!)

Happy Birthday Ann! We know you're in AZ, but we'll have some cake here in Indy to celebrate your big day!


Mimi also helped Mom make my Halloween costume today. I don't want to talk about it.

***Mom's note*** The costume is AWESOME! Stay tuned for pics after a tiny bit of fine tuning!!!!

Guess who is here from ARIZONA!?

Did you guess who my OTHER surprise visitor was????

It's MIMI!!! (Mom's mom). She flew in from ARIZONA yesterday just to see ME!

LOOK what she brought me! A JIF jar!!!! (Mom says she doesn't even want to KNOW how she got this past the TSA!)



Mimi and I did some hardcore snuggling on the couch. Look how wrinkled up she got my hotdog neck!!!!

Scratch harder Mimi!!!!! Don't neglect the booty area either!!!!



I pulled out the old "Oliver Twist" routine trying to get Mimi to share her dinner with me....

"Oh PLEASE Mimi...may I have some more Chicken Cordon Bleu, mashed sweet potatoes and spinach/pear salad? I am simply FAMISHED!!!"



After dinner, I took Mimi out to the front yard to show her my pumpkins and autumnal decorations...

"Isn't autumn in the Midwest LOVELY, Mimi? Does a CACTUS turn pretty colors in the fall?"



Mimi and Mom went for a walk around the 'hood (looking at everyone's Halloween jackassery!)

Mimi held my leash and laughed at how many delivery posts I have to leave and read my pee-mail!!!!



After our walk, we sat on the deck and looked at the stars...

I'm so glad you're here, Mimi! You are such a good snuggler!



But THEN...she thought it would be cute to put this farkakte HAT on me!!!!

"NOOOOOOOOOOO HAT!!!"



It was getting late, and we have a LOT of stuff on our agenda...so I tucked Mimi in and gave her a good night kiss!

Good night, Mimi!!!! Sweet dreams!!!!

Stay tuned....more adventures with Mimi coming up!




****Mom's note****
Special Puggy SHOUT OUT to all Mimi's friends (who we understand are all LURKER readers of our bloggie!) Feel free to leave a comment for Mimi...don't be shy!

She obviously arrived safely yesterday and was greeted with nice crisp 61 degree and sunny perfect fall weather. She enjoyed a nice warm carmel apple cider and is keeping warm with layers. We have a LOT of fun on the agenda for the next few days!

Also...hugs and kisses to PA! We miss you this trip!

VISITORS and a fun weekend!

Have any of you guessed who our mystery visitors were this weekend?????

SURPRISE!!!

It's Miss Tiffy Tippy Toes and Miss Pugnacious P herself, Payton!!!! They're pictured here with their mommies, Michele and Christy, but their daddies were here too along with Payton's Gammy and Gampy! We all had a fabulous afternoon of some yummy lunch and some playtime!!! We had a BLAST!



Payton's beautiful mommy, Christy, handed out banana chips to all of us Puggies!

NOM NOM NOM!!! (you may see Maggie in there too...she was still visiting this weekend!)


I got lots of loves and scritches from everyone....

Payton's Gammy....


Payton's Gampy....


I hung out and had some "dude time" with Payton's daddy, Tim!

So...how 'bout them Cardinals huh?


Everyone was SO NICE and WAAAY too generous and brought PRESENTS!!!


These bags all had stuff for the GROWNUPS! Two on the right were from Payton's peeps and had some fabulous wine, and the ones on the left were from Aunt Michele, Uncle Gerry and Tiffy....it was full of 4 bottles of PINNACLE (whoohoo...party time!)

Tiffy and her peeps stayed the night with us and they "sampled" quite a bit!


This amazing array was from Payton and her peeps!

The pretty red box had homemade coffee cakes (!) inside (mom wants your recipe!), a grain free cookie for me, yogurt drops for me (which are already gone!), a bully stick (NOM!) and a cool rubber squeaky dude with no face named "Cuz"!


Payton's peeps played a funny joke on us....they're from St. Louis and walked in and handed THIS box to mom....(notice the look of utter disgust on my face!)

NOW, Mom and Christy have talked about St. Louis "pizza" and how they use this weird white Velveeta-ish melty cheese called "PROVEL" on it (unless you SPECIFICALLY order mozzarella). Mom and dad were in St. Louis once and got a pizza without knowing this and GAGGED. SO, mom acted very polite and said "Thank you" for the pizza box, but then opened it.....

SURPRISE!!!

No gross pizza! It was full of VOLPI salami from St. Louis! (we are all now BIG FANS of this stuff!)


Mom and dad served lunch for everyone (baked 7 cheese mac and cheese, salad and rolls with cake balls and pumpkin whoopie pies for dessert...sorry...no pics!)
and then brought out something special for Miss Tiffy.....

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY MISS TIFFY!!!!!! Make a wish!!!!


After lunch and playtime, we all got ready to go to Ellie's first birthday party, but first stopped off at Three Dog Bakery!

We all look just like the three puggies in the poster!!! I was afraid we'd be late to the party because I thought people might start asking for autographs!


We were fashionably late to Ellie's birthday party and mom HARDLY got any pics at all!!! (WTF?!) She did get these few though....

This was for the PEEPS....mom made vanilla bean buttermilk cake with raspberry filling and white buttercream frosting. MMMMM!


Here's a group shot waiting for handouts....


PugPosse member GusGus chillin out on the ottoman!



Mom mauling Posse member Pippin (again)



Me with Payton
Mom is LOL'ing and says that Payton is looking at me like "Put your eyeballs back in your head, dude!"


And finally, me with Christy (Payton's mom).


Thank you ALL so much for coming to visit, bringing goodies and for helping to celebrate our friend, Ellie's birthday INDY style!!!! Can't wait to do it again!


NOW....cleaning resumes because we have ANOTHER special visitor arriving today! Stay tuned!

Clean house = visitors!!!!

Hmmm...all this cleaning stuff must mean that either mom is mad about something (she cleans when she's P.O.'d!) OR, someone is coming to VISIT!

Oh crap...I gotta go hide before mom straps scrubby pads to my paws and puts me to work!

Stay tuned!!!!!

Visiting Grandma at work

One of my grandmas (Holden's dad's mom...Grandma Sue) works at something called a BANK here in our town. I just know they don't allow Pugs inside, so it's not particularly interesting to me. Here is a picture of where she works....

It's an old picture taken from the newspaper story from a few years back after some bad guys ROBBED it! Luckily Grandma wasn't working that day!



ANYWAY...the other day, Mom took me to run errands with her (YAY!) and she pulled up to this cool window so Grandma could see me!

"Yes, hello Grandma, I would like eleventy McCheesyBurgers, one with extra pickle (for mom)!"



WHY is she laughing?????

"Come on Grandma! Just start sending the McCheesyburgers through this tube! Your GrandPug is STARVING!"



I think Grandma's bank needs to have more training classes for them. They screwed up my order BIG TIME! Do these look like McCheesyBurgers to you????

I THINK NOT!


(KIDDING! Thank you for the treats, Grandma!)

Weird Sign Wednesday

WHOA! This sign appears to warn of a big SNAKE with a POINTY HEAD!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!

I asked Holden to pick me up, but just to be safe, I'm going to stretch my arms out and stick my tongue out to disguise myself as a big scary hissy PugSnake!!!!!

SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!

Special visitors!

OK....as we promised yesterday, Mom is catching up with blogging for me. Rewind back to the first week of August.....some of my favorite people came to see ME!

It's the EDWARDS family!!!!
That's Olivia, Tom, Elyse and Susan! CLICK HERE and HERE to see pics from their other visits so you can see how big the girls have gotten!


Mom and Aunt Susan have been BFFs since the first day of 6th grade (back in 1981!)

Awwwwww! That's a LOT of fun over the years!



Aunt Susan was there at the hospital with mom when Holden was born! She tried to hold him like she did when he was a six pound baby.....

But it wasn't as comfortable 12 years later!!!!


Olivia and Elyse LOOOOOOVE me!

They looked funny with their faces painted (by a clown at the mall!) but I didn't care!


GRRRRRRR...it's fun playing TUG with these girls!!!!

GIMME. DAT. PUG!




Hmmm...Olivia and Elyse brought some interesting toys with them!

Mom says this girl's name is "Barbie" and says she's the most fabulous toy in the world. Looking at how glamorous she is, I think I have to agree...just LOOK at that dress!!!!


The peeps spent some time at the pool, the zoo, and a few other places that DON'T allow Pugs (what crap!), BUT....then I got to ride with them in Aunt Susan and Uncle Tom's van! I think I need a car seat just like this one!

GUESS where we went?????


THREE DOG BAKERY!!!

YUMMMMMY!


Aunt Susan and the girls picked me out a special treat for being such a good boy....

OMG! WHAT'S IN THE BAG????????


NOM NOM NOM! Doggie Carrot Cake!!!!!!!

Thank you Aunt Susan!!!!


...and thank you for bringing your family down to see ME! Kiss kiss!

Same time next year, ok????